President Donald Trump signed a major Dodd-Frank rollback into law Thursday, hoping to bring regulatory relief to community banks across the U.S. The president explained Dodd-Frank’s costly regulations gave large banks a negative advantage at the cost of small banks throughout the country. Click the headline to read more.

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A recent report suggested that the government-sponsored enterprises’ risk-sharing deals will be a big target for investors in 2018. In order to provide investors with as much detail as possible, Fannie Mae announced this week that it is making additional disclosures about some of its risk-sharing deals.

Fannie Mae announced its third credit insurance risk transfer transaction of 2017 on $23 billion in single-family loans. The GSE explained that the risk will be transferred to 17 insurers and reinsurers, a sign of growing interest in its CIRT program.

Fannie Mae announced its latest credit risk transfer deal that took effect on Feb. 1. The deal covers $20.4 billion in mortgages, of which the GSE retains the risk on the first 50 basis points of loss.

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He wears t-shirts to his televised interviews; not very CEO. He played sports at a high level, but rarely brings it up and when he does he talks about it as a mere chapter in his life. Honestly, who plays a Super Bowl and doesn’t describe it as the defining moment in their personal journey? Casey Crawford, that’s who. His family is a big part of his life of course, but he talks about his even larger family — his coworkers — in terms that are just as glowing.

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One of the things that has bedeviled mortgage financing post-crisis has been the absence of the private label mortgage backed securities market. During the peak years, private label MBS issuance topped $1 trillion. In 2017, only $70 billion of private label RMBS were issued, although that is a big increase from 2016.

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Digital technology has disrupted businesses and industries from publishing to public transportation, so can the mortgage industry be far behind? Actually, anyone who’s applied for a mortgage recently will have recognized that things are already changing fast.